Post-Merger Integration Blog

Health and Data Protection durign a Windows Migration

Health and data protection are very important (see video here). The Health section of Lens provides an overview of the Saas Solutions and Environments in order to ensure regularity. These tools allow you to monitor the IT environment's health for example, to determine future Office 365 service disruptions or planned maintenance before they happen.

Planning a Windows Server Migration

In part one of this series (here) we discussed how Windows Server 2003's End Of Life is quickly approaching. Planning your Windows Server Migration requires tools to increase efficiency and quality of your migration project. Features of Lens specifically focus on server migration to assist in your organisations' inevitable transition.

Windows Server Migration Planning Tools...

As it is almost time to say goodbye to Windows Server 2003 (see more End of Life information here) organisations are looking for the most cost effective and efficient way to update their systems. Planning is a large part of the migration process which is why here at Beyond Migration we have included planning tools as a part of Lens.

Project Risks, ARID, Remediate, and Manage all make up tools within the Server Planning piece of Lens. During a Windows Migration, it is important to have the right tools in place in order to carry out your work as efficiently as possible.

How to manage OS End of Life during A Windows Migration

As a part of the Migration Management tools for windows (watch video here), Lens offers,OS End of Life, whichproves to be a vital tool in highlighting servers and devices that have reached the end of their product life cycle. Raising awareness on the support covering your IT assets allows your organisation to efficiently plan their IT investments moving forward.

A deeper dive into tools for a windows migration project...

As mentioned in our Remediation Overview, using a web-based portal such as Lens to keep track and review related technology and devices that may need attention prior to a migrationcan help avoid this problem and ensure all remediation work is visible to the migration team.The following tools are available in Lens to assist in the remediation process of a Windows Migration project.

A look into your Windows Migration...

High level project management tools are categorised in order to maximise efficiency and planning for project leads and programme managers.

Project Risks, Arid, Remediate, Manage, Model Mapping and OS End of Life make up a collection of project management tools in the Lens Planning Phasethat can be used to perform asset management or platform migration planning.

Implementing Lens across a number of computer systems, people, applications and servers means connecting to machine sources of information. In most Enterprise companies, gaining access, change control procedures and testing discovery takes time and management.

Lens allows you to view your discovery data from many perspectives. For instance you can see end-users grouped by department and understand exactly what versions of operating systems is being used across your business.

This allows project teams to efficiently plan their time to carry out tasks, but also increases the confidence and strategy of the project as well, because you have full visibility prior to embarking on any change.

Benefits of an organized overview of users, departments and hardware include:

Increased visibility on core information during tasks such as Windows Migration or Windows Server Migration

Effective time management - as project management tools are built upon the discovery information